Stag - Vol. 12, No. 08 - April 21, 1961

              GLEE CLUB COPS INTERCOLLEGIATE CROWN FOR SECOND YEAR
Vol. 12 - No. 8
FU Junior Will Head
CISL Ex.ec Board
Michael Hurley, a junior at
Fairfield University, was elect­ed
chairman of the state execu­tive
board of the Connecticut
Intercollegiate Student Legis­lature.
The senior delegate-elect of
the Fairfield chapter of the
CISL defeated David L .. Simp­son,
a Fairfield resident and
present senior delegate from
the University of Bridgeport,
·n a down to the wire tension­packed
election in Hartford.
When the polling of the vari­ous
convention delegates was
completed, Hurley and Simpson
were tied for the office. The
present state executive board
chairman, Gerald Abbott of
Central Connecticut State Col­lege,
cast the deciding vote.
Mr. Hurley, who comes from
Dorchester, Mass., will be re­sponsib1e
for administering the
state executive board of the
C.I.S.L. and by virtue of his
office will lead discussions of
the group, which is moderated
by Secretary of State, Ella
Grasso. Mr. Hurley will also be
charged with arrangments for
the annual "Mock Legislature"
which is held in Hartford each
year.
(Continued on Page 5. Col. 4)
Festival Star Garners
1960 Grammv Award
The Dogwood Festival's
highlight, blues singer Ray
Charles. has won the country's
top vocal award at the third
annual Grammy Awards din­ner
of the National Academy
of Recording Arts and Sci­ences.
Charles. whose "Jazz on
Campus" concert is slated for
May 13. was awarded the
best single record Grammy
for his " Georgia on My
Mind" hit and took the best
vocal male album award for
the album. "Genius of Ray
Charles."
Queen Contest Deadline
Set For ~ednesday
All students who wish to en­ter
their dates as candidates
for Queen of the Dogwood Fes­tival
must have photographs
turned in at the Xavier ticket
booth by 3 p .m. Wednesday,
April 26, according to Connie
Aherne, ch1;1irman of the con­test.
Priz~s for the queen and her
court.:will be. announced at -later
date.
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Published by Students of Fairfield University, Fairfield, Conn. April 21. 1961
Cancer Research
Aided Thru Grant
From Institute
The Chemistry Depavtment of
F airfield University has been
awarded an additional grant of
$4,739 •by the National Cancer
Institute of the U.S. Public
Health Service, according to
Dr. J ohn Barone, associate
professor of chemistry, who is
the p rincipal investigator.
The grant is designated pri ­marily
for the purchase of
ultraviolet equipment which is
important in the determination
of •chemical structures and -can
be used to study electronic ef­fects
in molecules. These fac­tors
a-re significant in the inves­tigation
of compounds with
possible use of anti-cancer dr ugs
in .progress at Fairfield U under
Dr . Barone's direction. Com­pounds
which are designed to
be anti-metabolites (interfere
with normal ceLl .chemistry) of
naturally occuring n u c 1 e i c
acids and vitamins often have
this action because of small
differences in structure and
activity; hence the need ·for
careful study of these factors,
Dr. Barone said.
That the Fairfield U approach
is worthy of government re­search
support has been sho-wn
·by some of the synthesized
compounds which have inter­fered
with normal cell action in
the bacteria used in cancer
screens and in certain tuma.r­•
bearing mice. However, Dr.
Ba·rone emphasized that the
·careful and systematic approach
used by medical scientists will
prdbaJbly screen out as actual
cancer drugs the compounds
presently undergoing testing.
He pointed out that only a
small precen<tage of compounds
with biological activity are used
against human ills because ma­terials
are often toxic to normal
human cells.
(Continued o·n Page 5. Col. 3)
·Departing Frat Charter Members
Name Seven To Alpha Sigma Nu
'New Frontiers'
Selects Editors
Carberry Elected Prexy,
Ken Misa '61 Receives JOt·lette Named New Veep
First Psych Dept. Grant
Although only founded last
Donald Prezio~i and Richard 1 fall, F airfield's psychology de­Tino,
·both of the class of '62, partment has already had at
·have assumed co-editorship of least on~ of its pr<?d uct~ offered
NEW FRONTI•ERS be innin substantial financial a1d from
g g t h ree well-known graduate
with the Spring issues. Geoffrey schools.
Stokes, '61, the outgoing Editor­in-
Chief, will, according to ·the
custom established over the
years of the literary magazine's
existence, serve as advisor to
the new Editors on <the first
Sp~ri n g issue.
Kenneth F. Misa, a senior and
one of ten members of h is class,
who will have the u nique dis­tinction
of being one of the first
Fairfield students to graduate as
"psychology majors," has ac­cepted
a $1600 assistantship
Mr. Tino's poetry and stories from the University of Purdue,
have a~ppeared in FRONTI•ERS after turning down an offer of
extensively during the past two $2500 from Michigan State and
years. His column of artistic and a $1000 proposal from Detroit
cultural interest, The Whet- University. Purdue was ·his top
stone, appears in each issue of choice mainly because of its ex­THE
STAG. He is an English cellent reputation in t he field of
major. industrial psychology. Besides
Mr. Preziosi i'S a Classics attending classes, he will assist
major. His poetry has also been at the University's occupational
published in FRONTIERS, and research center.
he is Feature Editor of · THE When asked his opinion of
STAG, and a membe1r of the Fairfield's psychology depart­Fairfield
Dramatic Society. His ment Misa replied that if it
paintings have been sho-wn in continues its present rate of
several exhibits in Fairfield progress, Fairfield will even-
County. I (Continued on Page 5, Col. 3)
STUDENT UNION SOON: FR. 1\'IAHAN
Fairfield University plans the construction of a
student union building in the very near future. ac­cording
to Rev. George S. Mahan, S.J .. Executive
Assistant to the President of the University.
The announcement of this building. long a "pet
project" o.f THE STAG. was made by Fr. Mahan in
a recent interview carried by Westport radio station
WMMM on its afternoon program, "Fairfield '55."
Frank McDonald, P resident of
Alpha Sigma Nu, has announc
ed the selection of seven mem
bers of the Class of 1962 as
members of next year's chapter.
The seven, elected by the
present Senior members and
approved by the administration,
are Robert Berchem, Ronald
Cappelletti, Stephen Carberry,
Robert J orlett, Peter Menegus,
William Ndini, and Louis Ockey.
They were chosen on the three
fold basis of scholarship, loyalty,
and service, as provided for by
the ASN national constitution.
Carberry President
At a meeting held on April
12th, the new members selected
their officers for next year.
Stephen Carberry was elected
President, with Robert Jorlett,
Robert Berchem, and Louis
Ockey named Vice-President,
Secretary, and Treasurer respec
tively. Carberry and Jorlett
were chosen as delegates to the
bi-annual national convention
to ·be held this year in Milwau
kee on September 8-9.
The new members and officers
will be inducted at a formal
initiation ritual and •banquet the
evening of May 2 at the Turf
Club in Southport. It is hoped
that Father Rector will be able
to officiate at the ceremonies.
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Glee Club To Perform
A.t Bridgeport Tonite
Annual Shaliespeare Tallis Feature Papp;
Bellarmine Lecture Series Finishes Season
The Fairfield University Glee
Club will present its annual
scholarship concert tonight at
8:30 o'clock in Bridgeport's
Klein Memorial Auditorium be
ginning one of the busiest 'con
cert weekends of the present
season.
The concert is co-sponsored
with the Bridgeport Under­graduate
Club and proceeds
will go into the club's scholar­The
Bellarmine Lecture series ship fund.
offers its final effort of the
schoo-l year on successive Thurs­days,
May 4, 11, and 18 in con­junction
with the 1961 Stratford
Shakespeare Festival. At 8:30
p.m. on May 4th, Mr. J oseph
Papp, founder and producer of
the New York Shakespeare Fes­tival,
will speak on "Produc­ing
Shakespeare for American
Summer Audiences."
Mr. Papp has experience as
director and producer with the
very plays to be presented at
Stratford. Famed for his suc­cesses
with the Bard's works,
he has received the Newspaper
Guild Award for outstanding
achievements in off-Broadway
theatre, the Shakespeare Club
of New York Award, the "Tony"
Award for 1957-1958, and the
D'Annunzio Award. His work in
TV drama include such produc­tions
as "Billy Budd," "Hamlet,"
"Cinderella," "The Bridge of
San Luis Rey," and "What Every
Woman Knows."
On May 11th. Rev. John L.
Bonn, S.J., noted poet, novelist,
lecturer, and Professor of Eng­lish
and Latin at Fairfield Uni­versity,
will present, "Shakes­peare's
· Troilus and Cressida."
Fr. Bonn is the director of the
F airfield Drama Society's pro­duction
of "Hamlet" to be stag-ed
April 27, 28, 29 at Gonzaga
Auditorum and the former
Dean and Director of the Bos­ton
College Summer School of
Drama.
Rev. John W. Ryan, S.J., for­mer
Professor of Shakespeare
and Elizabethan Drama at the
Boston College Graduate School
and Director of the Institute of
Adult Education, will lecture
May 18th on "Macbeth and
As You Like It: A Study in Con­trasts."
Fr. Ryan, who is Chair­man
of the English Department
at Fairfield' and the Director of
the Shakespeare Lectures, has
scheduled a discussion period
after each lecture. There is no
charge for admission .
On Saturday, the Glee Club
will travel to Chicopee, Mass.,
for a combined concert with the
Our Lady of the Elms College
Glee Club.
After an overnight stay in
Holyoke, Mass., the group will
close out the weekend tour
with a special concert for the
Jesuits at Weston College in
Weston, Mass.
PAGE DIRECTORY
Editorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Faulkner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Glee Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . l, 9
Lawless .............. • ..... ... .. 4
Preziosi ... . .. . . .. .. . . . ..... ... .. 4
Sports ... . ........ . . .. . .... . .. 6, 7
Stokes ........ .. .. . . ........... 4
Tino .............. . ....... . .... . 3
Page Two
THE OTHER NEWMA.N
Five editions of the STAG have been published since our
first-issue diagnosis of Fairfield's myo!)ia as traceable to "an
absence of COMMITATUS"- or a need for a more intimate aca­demic
exchange between faculty and student. While our attempts
at Johnsonese were perhaps jejune, the problem remains an
entity True, the number of seminars and informal lectures has
increased this semester, the student-faculty academic conference
has been formed, and the Seven Arts Society has come into
existence. But a closer examination of those responsible for the
renaissance, reveals them as the same small group of stalwarts
who have always backed the Newman premise that the "true
end of education is wisdom." The vast majority remains devoted
to only those intellectual endeavors which will reap the im­mediate
harvest of a good mark.
A recent article in THE NEW REPUBLIC, proposes the fol­lowing
for the destruction of collegiate "intellectual slums,"
" the key to success seems to be the students' opportunity to
glimpse at close range men who inspire respect for curiosity
and learning, men who, by example, induce the young to do some
learning of thPir own."
Encouragement of independent study should be of primary
concern at Fairfield, yet some lecture fanatics and syllogism
memorizers persist. It is undoubtedly this same group with their
counterparts in the student body who have refused to acknow­ledge
the place of informal seminars and student-faculty coffees
in a liberal arts education. MTK
YES, \"l1E HAVE NO BA.NANAS
Out of the verbal compost heap so prevalent on college
campuses today there comes a decidedly disturbing trend.. the
Grand Order of Hangers-On (GOHO)
Someone, long since dead and probably better off for it,
once said that at least 50% of a college education is acquired
through that grand old institution known as the college "bull
session." At Fairfield, the necessity of having day-hops and off
campus boarders generally precludes this segment of the stu­dent
body from receiving a relatively high percentile of what
their sheckles are being doled out for. It would therefore seem
quite logical that this intellectual slack could be taken up by
those human machinations known as extra-curricula activities.
However, with a few notable exceptions, this is not the case.
The Student Council is presently engaged in a running duel
with the officers and members of GOHO. The Student Council
has asked the organizations covered by its constitution to submit
to them, 1) a copy of each organization's constitution and 2)
a list of members who are ACTIVE in the club's activities. The
council has also requested those activities not covered by its
constitution to voluntarily submit the same material.
In the Junior year and often prior to such time there occurs
that malady known as Yearbookitis. Driven by the realization
that graduate schools and the Fairfield Honor Society demand a
certain amount of extra-curricula credits, certain individuals
descend like locusts upon the nearest recruiting office of the
activity of their best friend. Indeed, "best friend" usually com­pounds
the fracture by assuring our civic minded friend that
his capacities will be taxed only to the extend of addressing
envelopes or licking stamps.
The greatest injustice, however, is not done to the organi­zation
involved or even ta that corporate entity known as Fair­field
University; it is done to those students !Who, for two or even
three years, have conscientiously applied themselves to the pro­jects
engaged in by their respective clubs.
The only foreseeable danger lies with the officers of the
clubs themselves. They can make or break the Student Council's
attempt at needed reform by the interpretation which they put
on that little word 'active." Their great temptation in the com­pliation
of these lists will be the natural tendency to be a
"hail-well-met-fellow" The outcome of this project will be in­teresting
for three reasons, 1) the furor kicked up by GOHO, 2)
the change noted by a before and after comparison, and 3) the
reflection upon the conscientiousness of those presently holding
elective offices. CAL
Letters to the Editor
TWO MATTERS
To the Editor·
There are two matters that I
would like to address, via the
medium, to both the faculty and
student body of Faimeld for
further consideration.
Number one, I recently learn­ed
that Hopkins Grammar
School, a New Haven prepara­tory
school, furnishes each grad­uate
with a wallet-size replica
of his diploma. I .bring this up
because it is a practice I would
like to see initiated here at Fair­field,
this year if possible. Aside
from the frivolity of it I do not
think the merit ·of such an un­dertaking
is easily discernable.
Since carrying the actual diplo­ma
on ones .person is so imprac­tical,
how nice, then, how ·con­venient
it would be to be able
to brandish positive proof of
scholastic achievement at a mo­ment's
notice. And the -cost?
I'm sure that if need be seniors
would willingly part with a
twenty-five cent piece or a half
dollar, though I seriously doubt
that it would approach these
figures.
And now the second matter
From time to time I have found
myself wondering why philoso­phy
has not been accorded the
status of "minor" for each grad­uate
of Fairfield. In fine, while
I do not begrud•ge the university
the prerogative of insisting on
such an extensive program in
phil-osophy (I wholeheartedly
endorse it), it would seem that
commensurate credit would be
in order, .aLbeit titular. But per­haps
I am tooting an old 'horn,
if not, then I do think the mat­ter
worthy of consideration.
William C. McNulty
THE STAG
LETTER,S.
To the Editor·
Your editorial of March 23
concerning "Operation Aboli­tion"
leaves much to be desired
from the standpoint of objec­tivity
It is hard to disa-gree
with your contention that the
riots of our "ivy brethren to the
north" would be admirable grist
for the Communist propaganda
mill. But it is equally hard to
agree with the bland assertions
you make about the film's
"distortions."
First, as to "the committee's
blatant adoption of the Com­munist
method of using false­ness
for propaganda purposes
" no less an authority than
San Francisco's Mayor Christo­pher
said, "Known Communists,
and I repeat this emphatically,
known Communists were in the
lead of this demonstration."
Matthew Carberry, Sheriff of
San Francisco County, had this
to say· "The people stirring the
students up, and bringing them
to an emotional pitch, were well
known Communists in the San
Francisco area." Need more lbe
said about who inspired and in­stigated
the riots? Is this the
"falseness" you were alluding
to in your editorial?
And yes, William Wheeler
did .admit on Los Angeles TV
that there were "two minor in­accuracies"
in the film, he did
so in the course of proving that
it was not distorted.
I think a few sales figures
may help to clear up your alle­gation
that the film has been
unsuc-cessful, that it has "failed
to achieve its puPpose." TIME,
March 17, reports that 750
copies of the film have been
sold, at $100 each, that Rep.
Fr.ancis E. Walter, chairman of
HUAC, estimates that "more
than 10 million have seen •the
film since its release last July"
This to me is fair success for a
small -budget, amateurish, 45
minute documentary
One parting question. did you
know that the Department of
HeaHh, Education and Welfare
shelled out $100 for a copy of
the film to show to its em­ployees?
It seems to me that
you are in dubious battle.
Michael Lawrence, '63
Concerning "my dubious
battle" may I ( 1) refer· you
battle" may I (1) refer you to
AMERICA (April 8. 1961) and
(2) remind you that though
millions b o u g h t "Peyton
Place," this did not make it
free from distortion. EDITOR.
To the Editor·
"To perform its functions
adequately a library must pos­sess
sufficient resources and
provide efficient service. More
than forty thousand carefully
selected books and bound vol­umes
of peri·odicals are avail­able
for study and research. The
large, well-lighted reading ·room
has an excellent selection of
Teference works."
'!\his impressive description
of our Univ&sity library and its
efficiency appears in the 1961
catalog. It is the finest piece oil'
literary fictin I've read since
entering the Jesuit Institution
of Southern New England.
"Let the reader Beware"
should be the Common Law
caption heading this quote so
that the poor naive freshman
won't be too amazed when he
finds that a substantial number
of •the forty thousand volumes
just happen to be missing.
It's l!'ather depressing, to say
the least, when the librarian
looks at you with •compassion
and rema<rks.
April 21. 1961
"I DON'T K!NOW WHERE letic Department" leave me
THE BOOK IS." with the conclusion that nobody
Are not then some remedies knows the set-up around here.
in store for •the library? The Athletic Department a
1) That if a student should such, that is the offices in the
take a book from the shelves Gym, have absolutely nothing
merely for reference, he should to do with Sport's Publicity All
not try to return through the Sport's Publicity comes out of
labJ'Irinth only to replace it ·on the Publicity Offices located in
the wrong shelf. Rather he Xavier Hall.
should return it to the desk and Now I find the major argu­let
qualified pagers JI"estack the ment against our publicity is
book on the correct shelf so the fact Fairfield University did
that it will be there when the not appear in any of the pre­next
person wishes it. season basketball publication .
2) There is a •rule which states Thi-s fad is true. and to some
that all students must present extent the students .have a right
their notebooks for inspection to know why At this time I
before leaving the library This will answer the question.
rule, cumbersome though it The Publicity Office had a
may be, must be enforced until change in personnel last June.
the students prove themselves Thus, by the time the present
to be more mature and not pil- Director was able to get the
fer books out of the library material organized, i·t was too
3) Even though the faculty late for the publication dead­may
pursue their intellectual line even though he made every
endeavors in a more fervent effort to have Fairfield Univer­manner
than the undevgraduate sity make the 1960-61 Basket·
crew, that ~s still no reason ball Previews. We have already
why they should not be subject made arrangements for next
to some li•brary restriclions. It's y.ear with a similar article to
rather revolting to •be looking be .given to the magazines as
for a book .for two weeks and appears in this issue of the
then suddenly find •that Fr STAG.
1has had it out for As for Sport's Publicity in
seven months. general, I can only say that
I think then that it would be since I started working for the
much better for all concerned office on Feb. 1, 1961, a great
if the graduate of the College many releases have been sent
of St. Catherine would spend out. For example, in the 28 days
less time checking the boys' ties of the month of February we
and more time keeping track of can account for 25 days when
her books. relea:ses went out of our office.
Peter A. Olander '62 These releases were sent to
To the Editor·
I would like to congratulate
those individuals who have
written articles for, or letters
to, the STAG ·concerning the
basketball •team. Cong•ratula­tions
are not only in order for
those who wrote in the school
newspaper, but also for all those
students who have discussed
basketball on campus.
Our fine basketball season was
due to many factors. The tre­mendous
.personnel, consisting
of the players as well as ·the
coaching staff, is ·seen by the
puiblic, but it is only fair to add
our Athletic Department, since
·they do all the paper-work,
without which our team could
not perform.
My inteppretations of the
arti-cles and letters in the STAG
about our so-called "lazy Ath-about
63 radio stations, news­papers,
and periodicals, as well
as going over the two major
news services - UP! and AP
States covered by our releases
are Connecticut, New York,
New Jersey, Rhode Island,
Massachusetts, and Washing­ton,
D.C.
There are the facts that show
what publicity ,goes out and
where it goes, ·but it must be
added that we ·can only send
the releases out and contact the
people that the articles are com­ing.
We can't print them for
them .in the newspapers.
At ·this time I would like to
thank the entire student body
for their co-operation and sup·
pnrt :behind our fine basketball
team. In closing I might add it
has been my pleasure to be the
statistician for Fairfield U. for
the past four years.
JOHN P CREED
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STAFF
P . McNulty, C. Roland, J . Morrison, T . Arnold, W. Hoehler, R. Lawless, T.
Tierney, J J Carway, T Phelan, R. Manning, J . A. McCall, J. FlaUe>:,
L. Lavigne, J . B. Heller, G. Stokes, E. Webby, N . Coli, P . Walz, S. Klukowskl,
A. Wilson. W Dermody, W. Bellows, E. Bader, R. Tino, M. Hurley, J . RhaU·
gan, J Moore. G. Papa, M. Jacoby, J Clairmon-t, R. Badolato, G. Muller, D.
Browne and J Scott.
April 2L 1961
Students Continuing S upport For
Organized Integration Programs
By J OHN FAULKNER
In the recent history of the first fight against racial injustice
in America, no single aspect has r ivaled the impact of the
student sit-ins. They focused the attention of the nation on the
discrimination still discouragingly prevalent, yet made deep in­roads
into the established local discriminatory patterns. Not the
least of their effects was the sympathetic response they evoked
from the demonstrators' fellow students throughout the nation.
The sit-ins made the students aware (for almost the first time)
of power which they could effectively exercise to alter an
abhorrent social pattern.
The response was elating (and regarded by so keen an ob­server
as David Riesman as a signal event in the development of
the American university). Sympathy picketing was begun by
whites and negroes alike, and even at Fairfield a small group
of students joined with the Bridgeport chapter of the NAACP
in a sympathy demonstration.
As we well know, the enthusiasm generated last spring by
such demonstrations has cooled on this campus and many others.
Not all campuses have abandoned interest, however. Harvard
students have been outstanding on their own campus, at neigh­boring
colleges, and in the Boston area; their university has
continually welcomed speakers concerned with racial problems.
Other schools whose students have been notable for their con­tinued
concern and protest are UCLA, Manhattanville College,
the University of Texas, the University of Michigan, SMU, and
St. Mary's University of San Antonio. The record of the Negro
students from Fisk, North Carolina A. & T., and Howard has
been justly publicized, and reprisals severe.
We wish, however, to call to your attention the efforts of
certain student or predominantly student organizations whose
exertions against racial discrimination deserve far more attention
and commendation than they have received.
The National Federation of Catholic College Students,
through its Social Action Secretariat, and the National Student
Association have devoted much of their activity to fostering
studen t consciousness of racial justice among their respective
memberships.
The Committee on Racial Equality (CORE) with chapters in
most large cities and college towns has been directly active,
sponsoring demonstrations of all kinds in both the northern
and southern states. Many CORE members have been jailed
for th eir peaceful sit-ins and picketing in the deep south.
The Emergency Public Integration Committee (EPIC) is an
organization centered in the Boston area whose publicity and
protest work has taken on a national scope. They have raised
money for many local southern causes and publish an excellent
newsletter on social justice even ts.
Suqscriptions cost $1.00 for ten issues and may be ob tained
from:
EPIC
Adams C-5
Cambridge 38, Massachusetts
Two other importan t studen t organizations are the Southern
Student Non-Violent Coordinat ing Committee an d its new as
yet unnamed northern counterpart currently being formed in
Chicago. The former's name emphasizes the methods of active
protest adopted by all such groups. A sentence from its state­ment
of purpose gives further insight into its goals. "It (non­violence)
matches the capacity of eveli to inflict suffering with
an even more enduring capacity to absorb evil, all the while
persisting in love."
In addition to the members of these organizations other stu­dents
have acted independently or with such organizations as
the NAACP. The total number is small, but their sense of pur­pose
and achievements have been great enough to merit the
highest pride of our generation.
* * *
Some of the protest work currently pursued fo llows:
Movie Stand-Ins
ABC-Paramount Theatres are segregated in the deep South.
Beginning in Austin, Texas, and spreading throughout the state,
students have lined up at ticket boots and asked if all Americans
were admitted, and after the usual reply of "No", they would
refuse tickets and return to the end of the line. This hasn't
proved too effective, and more emphasis will be placed on boy­cotts
and letter campaigns. Sympathy stand-ins were held in
Boston last month and students have been asked to withdraw
their patronage from the Paramount chain.
If you wish a list of ABC-Paramount theatres in your area,
write to:
Mr. Chandler Davidson
2844 Shoal Crest
Austin 5, Texas
Students wishing to write in protest to ABC-Paramount
discriminatory policy should write to:
Mr. Leonard Goldenson
Paramount P ictures Theatres Corp.
1501 Broadway
New York 36, New York
F ayette County Relief
Students from several Greater Boston colleges are donating
blood to local blood banks to raise money for negroes in Fayette
and Haywood Counties (Tenn.) who have been subjected to
severe economic boycott as a result of their efforts to vote,
and who are in need of large scale economic aid. Over $200
has been made through blood sales alone.
THE ST A G
Cuban News Coverage
Distor ted: P A Speaker
By ERNEST WEBBY
The United States is not get­ting
the true view of what is
happening in Cuba, a Cuban
who fought to p u t Fidel Castro
into power warned at the P ub­lic
Affairs Forum on campus
last week.
The speakers were Genaro
Cal1, representing the Connec­ticut
chapter of the Cuban De­mocratic
Revolutionary Front
or Frente and Michael Baha­monde,
a recent refugee from
Cuba.
The views on Cuban events
reported by some American
newspapers are very frequently
erroneous, in some cases to the
extent of distortion of the truth,
said Genaro Call, former Cuban
Freedom Fighter who served
with Castro in the Escambray
mountain campaign which led
to the overthrow of the Batista
regime.
Mr. Call arrived in this coun­try
shortly after Castro's P ro­visional
Government began to
show "Communist leanings."
He accused Castro of being a
Communist - dominant despot
who betrayed the Revolution.
A moving description of life
in present-day Cuba was given
by Mr. Bahamonde. He cited
incidents which pointed ou t
that in many cases Castro has
proved to be even more oppres­sive
than Batista.
The Frente which Mr. Call
represents, is reported by some
sources as having been subsi­dized
by U.S. agencies. The or­ganization
is influenced by the
political leaders under the de­mocratic
Cuban governments
of the 1940's.
Last month, after nearly a
month of hard bargain ing, steps
were taken to unify the two
largest anti-Castro groups. The
Frente and the Revolutionary
Movement of the P eople
(M.R.P.), dominated by former
Castro allies who ba-ck ed h is
1and reforms and other social
measures but opposed his re­fusal
to hold elections and his
corroborations with the Com­munists,
announced in Miami
that they had formed a "pro­visional
Cuban Revolutionary
Council. (They carefully avoid­ed
calling it a "government in
exile" because this would vio-
(Continued on Page 4, CoL 1)
SAS Answers Demand,
Sets New Song-Fest By
Carolyn Hester May ·2
The Seven Arts Society an­nounced
Tuesday that Miss
Carolyn Hester, who complete­ly
captivated her audience in
Gonzaga Auditorium Mar. 7
will return to Fairfield May 2.
"We'd be crazy not to bring
her back," a spokesman for the
organization stated, "the de­mands
of the audience for a
return engagement were over­whelming."
In spite of increased expense,
the STAG w as assured that the
student price will remain the
same, $1.00, while general ad­mli.
ssion prices will be set at
$1.50.
Miss Hester, whose latest
record was released last month,
will appear with a completely
new first act. The contract for
this new act was still in the
process of negotiation at press
t ime.
THE
WHETSTONE
Page Three
By
RICHARD
TINO
The influence of the masters is strong among writers. The
following unfinished beginnings were made under just such in­fluences:
(with thanks to Steinbeck, Dostoevsky, and Heming­way
respectively).
Sometimes a man stops making good sentences to earn the
title wr iter. Sometimes he stops thinking logically, reasonably,
for just a minute. And sometimes an inarticulate realization
bounces into his head and he can understand things a little
better than before and he knows where he stands on something
that had h im keeping a leg on both sides of a wire fence and
looking over both h is shoulders at once to keep ll-i-s---ba-lance. And
that time is when he stands up and hops off that fence and
finds out that human beings have to have their feet in some­thing
real and solid and that sitting on fences is for the birds.
::: * *
Alyosha came into the hot little room where Smerdyakov
sat huddled against the wall laughmg his insane giggle. The
smoke from the fire was thick in the room and the steam from
the samovar mixed the smell of tea into the air that was already
full of the smell of burning wood and the damp musk smell of
the little disheveled cot which lay near the window for the sick
mother of Rashalnikov, Dmitri, Ivan, and Natasha.
Natasha wiped the sweat from her forehead with her dirty
apron. She offered Alyosha some tea.
"He . . . He . . . ," Smerdyakov giggled.
Ivan, Dmitri, Raskalnikov and a little old man came into
the room. Natasha fixed cups of tea for them. Alyosha warmed
his hands with his cup while he waited for the sugar to melt.
"He . .. He ... ," Smerdyakov giggled.
The men all sat down on the damp floor beside the fire.
They had come from the province of K- where Ivan was com­missioned
to a garrison of cossacks.
"The winter will be a hard one for the people in K-,'r said
Dmitri.
"There is nothing above the mind," said Ivan.
"But there is the suffering of the ·people," said Alyosha.
"P erhaps," said the little old man whose name was Ra-zumihin.
"And there is the music of a singing semovar of tea," said
Natash a.
"He ... He .
good one?"
" giggled Smerdyakov, "Wanna hear a
*
J ake and I sat at a table in a corner of the Mont Parnasse.
The garcon came over to take our order.
"Deux Pernods," I said.
The waiter wen t away.
"The bulls are good at Pomplona . this year," said Jake.
"The bulls are always good," I said.
Brett walked into the cafe wearing the man's h?-t she always
wore. She wore the brim turned down all around it and it did
not look mannish that way. There was an English game hunter
with his foot in a cast sitting at a table between Brett and where
we sat. Brett smiled at him as she passed through to the table
where we sat.
"Hello, fellows," Brett said, "Can a girl sit down here "
"Sure," I said
"Sit down," J ake said.
"How are the bulls at Pamplona," Brett said.
"Good," J ake said.
"They are always good," I said.
"It is the torero," Brett said.
"Yes, it is the torero," Jake said.
Manuel came out of the room marked "Hommes." He saw
us and hobbled over. Manuel had been a bull fighter. He hobbled
from a wound he got in his last corrida. Manuel sat down. The
garcon brought our P ernod and we ordered two for Manuel and
Brett.
"J ake says the bulls are good this year," Brett told him.
"They are good bulls," Manuel said. "But it is not the bulls.
It is the torero and the bull."
"I think it's the bull," I said.
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Page Four
COMMENT
By DON PREZIOSI
It's about time, I think, that we gave up the notion
that large-scale organized inter-college sports have an integral­indeed
uelevant - place on this or any university campus. Fair­field
is a young ·college. We cannot afford the wasted energy
and time .spent on so unnecessary a matter as college athletics.
Also, athletics are an impractical rallying point; they do not
gravita•te the s pirit of all the students, nor can they ever hope to.
One so-called benefit derived ·for the University when its
teams defeat the teams of other colleges is an increase in pres­tige
- however this ·reaLly means that outr rating as a school
becomes higiher in .the eyes of the lower and misguided element
in other schools. Another so-called benefit is that the team .pub­licizes
the · name of :the University - however, it does so for
the wrong reason, and thus this appeal to the ·lower hero-worship,
_ group-<participation, rah-rah nature of a potential incoming
Freshman attracts to the •college too great a propo11tion .of stu­dent
to whom academks are secondary - people who have no
place in a university. There are far too many of this type here
at Fairfield. They will agree with you, if you ask ·them, that
they are here to learn, etc., ·but their actions reveal that the
opposite i!ntention is rea1lly what tthey believe. There are actually
creatures roaming this campus who would rather attend a
basketball game than a Bellarmine Lecture. This is insanity;
and the quicker such an element is rooted out of this school, the
better the school should become.
The architectural monstrosity between Berchmans and
Xavier Halls, and all it stands for, is beside the point - the
point being that this University was founded to educate and
uplift young men - or, to put it more concretely, to draw from
them their best qualities and point them toward the mainstream
of human thought - •the ·continually evolving Voice of Man -
that they may become more fully human.
Lf Fairfield is to ever become a University in the full sense
of the word, action must be taken to abolish our inter-collegiate
teams. If it is not taken, we will •become another small college,
one .of a faceless mediocre herd whose difference from other
schools lies merely in the name. It is insanity, it is perverse
logic to hope that the presence of or.ganized athletics will in
any way better this college.
Yes, the school needs a rallying point for the social spirit
of its s•tudents; but •why basketball? it might as well be tiddly­winks
- both are equally irreleVlant. A coHege is not a more
sophisticated playground.
The whole concept of inter-coLlege athletics is a perversion
in itself - it a system based on winning and losing, an attempt
to mimic pr.ofessional sports ~a larger perversion) without the
f·acilities to do so. The conce!pt of sport on a more personal level,
among classmates, for exa!IliPle, should be utilized more to ful­fill
its more important purpose - to provide an outlet for recrea­tive
expression. It (intraJmuml athletics) provides a necessary
supplement to the mema:l training ·of the individual and is a
necessary part of the development of the young man. Its only
perversion is that trophies are awarded to the "winners." Con­ceivably,
and student who wishes to, should have available to
him facilities to develop his physical well-being.
The idea of •abolishing intercollegiate teams is relative·ly new.
It is only beginning to be considered in a number of the more
enli-ghtened ·co:lleges in the ·country. The University of Chicago
was one of the 'fi·rst to actually do something to rid itself of this
nonsense. That was in 1935.
If the teams sent :here and there by the school (meaning
by .those who organize the team·s) were •to become the "best"
in the nation, the school would not be •bettered an iota. We must
ove11throw the perverse and uncivilized and unchristian notion
that to win is better tfrlan to lose. The function of physical com­petition
is to produce physical well-being - not ot produce
bigger and better machines to be used for the advantage of the
few who control them.
CUBA
(Continued from Page 3)
late U.S. laws.) The united ex­iles
picked Dr. Jose Miro Car­dona
of the Frenie, a pre-Ba­tisa
leader who served as
P remier in the first forty-five
days of the Castro revolution,
as President.
Dr. Cardona said the group
aimed at restoration of consti­tutional
government, with free
elections within eighteen
months; retention of land re­forms
and nationalization of
public services, with "fair"
compensation to former own­ers;
and re-alignment of Cuba
with hemisphere democracies.
The opponents of Premier
Castro, at home and abroad rep­resent
several distinct political
tendencies. It is openly said
that only the strong urging of
the U.S. brought the temporary
show of unity.
What does the future hold for
Cuba? Mr. Call may have put
it well when he said, "troubles
in Cuba will certainly not end
when Castro is deposed - that
vvill only be the start."
Things we'd like to see:
Mr. O'Keefe, S.J., b!'ibed to
throw a proof and let ·the ration­alists
win.
Green •stamps given for mirte­box
donations.
An interlinar translation for
tScientia.
Someone break into the Air
Force office, pick up the red
dial-less phone and scream
"Sc•ramble."
The dormers throw a get­acquainted
·party for the day­hops.
A football game between the
B.B.A. "·boys" and •the A.B.
English ghetto.
The gym razed to the ground.
NOTICE
On April 13, The Cardinal
Key Society and the Public
Affairs Club conducted on the
Fairfield campus, two different
affairs on the same night.
The moderator of the Cardinal
Key wants 'those who are in­terested
to know that this was
his fault and not the fault of
the Public Affairs Club.
THE STAG
MOVIES ...
AND MOVIES
By HENRY O'HAGAN
Seven Ar1s Society
In the March 11 issue of
America there's an article,
"Let's Have Film Festivals",
by William F. Lynch, S.J., for­merly
a reporter for the New
York Herald Tribune, now
teaching at Georgetown. Fr.
Lynch is one of the growing
number of indignant citizens
protesting the present-day pros­April
21, 1961
THE THEATUE
BY
GEOFF STOKES
A recent news article carried the word that "A Raisin in
the Sun" is to be the official United States entry in this year's
Cannes Film F estival. It is an entry of which we can all be
proud, for it represents much that is technically superb in Holly­wood's
polished fay, as well as sensitivity that we have come
to associate only with " little" pictures.
titution of mass media, particu- Lorraine Hansberry's adaptation is much the same as the
larly motion pictures. Unlike script of the recent Broadway success and the adult treatment
~a~~ ~.f the Catholic movie I of such difficult subjects as abortion a~d agnosticism is probably
cnt~cs w_hose colum~s are traceable to its roots in the theatre. The problems were faced
syndicated m sundry dwcesan frankly, but without smirks or sugary pietism which marked
newspapers throughout the na- the subjects in previous films.
tion, he has something intelli­gent
to say; he has a workable
answer.
The current all-time low in
public taste exists, not because
of native ignorance, but ero­sion.
We, as a nation, have been
exposed to so much celluloid
tripe that we now take a maso­chistic
delight in it. Fr. Lynch
places the partial blame for this
squarely where it belongs:
"We ought especially to ex­pect
from the colleges and
universities that they partici­pate
more actively in the for­mation
of the national critical
judgement in the areas of the
popular imagination and the
mass media. Thus far they
have asserted (not too rightly,
I think) that if they train
young minds c r i t i c a 11 y
through a traditional, elite
literary culture, these minds
will be able to make the ne­cessary
acts of critical trans­fer
to the realities of the pop­ular
and mass media culture.
Actually, however, the stu­dent
allows himself to live a
schizophrenic existence as
critic, loving the good in one
world and the bad in another.
At any rate, if any transfer
is made, it is neither solid or
articulate, But if the schools,
the colleges and the universi­ties
were t r u I y to concern
themselves with the problem,
it is very much in their power
to create a critical audience
of vast proportions that would
in good time make the present
situation impossible."
A novel is a novel and a poem
is a poem. Our literature courses
make no attempt to judge one
by the standards of the other,
yet we are expected to judge
motion pictures, an art form
which in some respects has a
far greater impact on our so­ciety,
by standards acquired
from both. It can't work, it
won't work, it doesn't work.
There is no better example of
this fact then the Saturday night
movie in Gonzaga.
Fr. Lynch's solution is simple
and highly workable: a Film
Festival: a series of films spread
throughout the school year. Such
a series would be non-academic,
but woul have a disipline in that
each film in the series would be
related by an overall theme.
The choice of themes is unlimit­ed:
A History of the Motion
Picture; Films of the Twenties
(Thirties, etc.); The Films of
John Ford( or George Stephens,
or any other great director
you'd care to name); and so on.
Mimeographed program notes
could be handed out before each
show relating the film to the
series and to motion pictures as
a whole.
(Continued on Page 9, Col. 1)
The acting is also a bit more than merely technically good.
Claudia McNeil is almost unbearably powerful in her charcteri­zation
of the widowed matriarch. Even in repose, she has an
aura of majesty. When she becomes emotional, as she does in
an impassioned clash with her daughter, she verges on the
terrifying. I cannot rec;1ll a more effective scene in any recent
Hollywood production than that one; for when she says, "In
my mother's house there is still God," we share her faith.
Her skill is equalled by Sidney Poitier. In his role of the
frenetic materialist son, he fulfills all the promise that his early
success in "Edge of the City" and "Porgy and Bess" indicated.
His skill is such that when one thinks back on his struttings
and leapings, his tortured posturings, they seem beneath credi­bility
- but during the film they are starkly believable.
The rest of the cast is good, save for a note of anti-white
prejudice in one role, particularly Diana Sands, who fully ex­ploits
the comic potential in her part as a young premedical
student.
The true tragedy of the film is never really stated, however,
but only implied. In his efforts to assert ·himself, to become a
fully free man, Poitier was forced to emulate all that is evil in
our Anglo-American culture. For him, the mark of equality
was material success. He was killing himself in a desperate effort
to become like everyone else, without stopping to make a value
judgment on the society he was trying to join.
The tragic answer to Norman Mailer's "White Negro" may
very well be Miss Hansberry's "Black Caucasian."
ASPECT
By RICHARD M. LAWLESS
With this column, ASPECT moves into the field of reviewing
current entertainment available to students. Any suggestions
you may have as to subjects for future reviews will be appre­ciated;
this service is for you and we would like to know your
preferences.
With the popularization of the paper-back book, many forms
of literature formerly too steeply-priced for the college student
have become readily available to the interested reader. Cur­rently,
the Wesleyan University Press is publishing a Younger
Poets Series, collections of works by new poets that deserve
recognition and are worth reading. One in particular is a collec­tion
entitled "Saint Judas" by James A. Wright.
Wright is no stranger to publication, having published in­dividual
poems in many of the literary r eviews; to complete
this book he received a Kenyon Review Fellowship in Poetry.
Wright' is a midwesterner and his background of the farm, the
praire and the simple people of his environment provide a
departure point for much of his work. He finds poignancy in the
simplest every-day experience and expresses a personal feel­ing
well.
He has many fine poems on the sea also. He treats the sea
as many strangers do, considering it destructive yet oddly
beautiful. From this perhaps the general classification in which
he could be placed (if this can be done of any poet) would be
that of a romantic heavily towards the beauty of simplicity and
the bizarre.
The external form of the poetry is fairly rigid, consisting
of rhymed-metered and blank verse, with some ·subtle variations,
not for technical novelty, but for ease of expression. Saturday
Review says, "Wright seems to have achieved the 'common ih
experience-uncommon in writing' that Robert Frost has asked
for."
We would say that Wright is worth reading and appreciating.
His poetry is lionest and solid stuff, too real and simple in their
beauty to be brushed aside; in short, a look at a small part of
life, well-done technically and artistically.
* *
Social Comment: Re Robert (Medieval) Welch and The
John (Martyr) Birch Society - God Bless America . .. Only
in Boston . . . Down with the Kaiser.
April 21. 1961
E. - •. A.qu.~EA.
CLUB &
CAMPUS
FASHIONS
BY 0. E. SCHOEFFLER Fashion Director of ESQUIRE Magazine
"Not so long ago, the university man (or any man, for that matter)
had a simple choice to make: Dress to be in fashion . .. or dress for
comfort. This spring he insists on both qualities in one outfit ... and
what the man wants, the man gets.
SEERSUCKERS REBORN- Tile. return of the
seersucker suit illustrates this fashion with com­fort
theme. Ideas in campus fashion have a way
of"running in cycles. Many years back seersucker
suits. were the main event in every college man's
wardrobe. Then they disappeared from the scene.
Now, brought up to date by the textile magicians,
seersucker is 'back on campus, bigger and better
than ever.
Th.e seersucker fabric, with its siightly crinkled
texture, comes in all cotton or in blends of cotton
and man-made fiber .. Its very light weight com­bines
maximum comfort with excellent shape re­tailling
qualities. Traditionally seen in stripes of
blue, grey, or brown with white, seersucker is
showing more pattern variety these days through
the use of ·small Glen Urqhart.plaids ... particu­larly
in the g1·ey and white combination.
DENIM:AGAIN_ Denim is another campus wardrobe fabric rep­resenting
many turns of fashion's wheel over the years. Originally
used for work clothing, denim has been. refined to a soft, light­weight,
and very comfqrtable multiple-purpose fabric. Seen mostly
in a soft, faded blue shade, denim's·versatility is demonstrated by
its many uses . .. in trim· cut slacks, Bermuda shorts, ,and particu­larly
sport jackets that go remarkably well with many different
types of shirts and slilCks.
INDIA- MADRAS WITHOUT END -
University men have been consistent in
their preference for soft, muted or con­servative
colorings. This no doubt .ac­counts
for the keen interest in India
Madras. This cotton fabric ... authentic­ally
imported from India and also adapted
in American weaving ... is marked with
many different plaid patterns, some large
and irregular and others small in dimen­sion.
All have the characteristic subtlety
of color, soft and muted in tone.
Madras has gained in popular campus ac­ceptance
through extensive use in the
widely worn button-down model shirts ...
many in a short-sleeve pullover style with ·
a button placket part way down the front.
These shirts are equally fashionable in
the classroom, for weekend wear, · and
wherever home is during summer vaca­tion.
The same fabric has also caught on
in walk shorts.
TOMORROW- While nobody can really predict the next exciting
fashion for the well-dressed uni-versity
man, I'd bet strongly on the
new idea of the Blazer Cardigan . . .
a collarless model blazer with a
strong British heritage. It's some­thing
to look for a year or so from
now.
And while you're looking, keep an
eye open for another legacy of Brit­ish
fashions . .. the country cloth­ing
colors of chamois and mustard.
Fabric suits with a suede finish and
glove soft pigskin shoes are two
more likely contenders for future
campus popularity. .. . ~ ... -- ~
THE STAG
CHE·M CLUB
(Coni. from Page 1)
Lab Animals
The use of laboratory anima.Js
under .controlled and humane
conditions makes possible the
study of such materials and
only •the most likely are studied
with humans. Nevertheless, the
Fairfield University chemist
added, the synthesis of new
compounds goes on in la•bora­tories
all over the world in the
hope that the desired effects
will be attained.
Biological testing o.f com­pounds
discovered at Fairfield
U is ·being conducted at Roswell
Park Memorial Institute, the
New York State Cancer Center
in Buffalo.
Chemical aspects of the re­search
at Fairfield University
have been published ·in a series
by the Journal of Organic
Chemistry.
The research conducted b(Y
Dr. Barone has been made pos­sible
by more than $20,000 in
grants in the past 15 months.
Two-thi·rds of the amount has
been granted ·by the National
Cancer Ins•titute for .projects in
whiah Dr. Barone •is assisted
by J ohn Bognar, a Fairfield U
senior chemistry major and a
refugee of the Hungarian revo­lution
who is on scholarship at
the Universi.ty:.
The remainder of the money
has been awarded by the Na­tional
Science Foundation for
SUJpport of additional under­graduate
research participation
in the chemistry department's
cancer projects. Holders of the
positions which carry stipends
are Joseph Sizensky ·of Fair­field
and Richard Nanfeldt of
New Haven.
ASSIST ANTSHJ.p
(Cont. from Page 1)
tually have one of the best repu-
Summer Classes
Start June 28
Registration dates for the
Fairfield University summe['
session have been set for June
26-27, accordif)g to the Rev. T.
Everett McPeake, S.J., director
of the summer program.
Classes will begin June 28,
and will ·continue through Aug­ust
9. All coui'ses will be pre­s
·ented in the mo-rnings, while
laJboratory activHies fo.r science
programs will take place from
noon to 1 :40 •p.m.
In addition to sciences, courses
will be offered in English, eco­nomics,
languages, history, ma­thematics,
philosophy and the­ology
and in education.
Russian Offered
'I1he study of Russian will be
among languages to be present­ed.
Wolfe M. Czamansky, a
native of Berlin, Germany, will
be the instructor.
Education courses will be on
the underg.raduate and g:raduate
levels. Graduate programs offer­ing
several areas of concentra­tion
lead to master of arts de­g
·rees and sixth year ce!'tificates.
Majors in the gu-aduate pro­grams
include secondary school
teaching, administration and
supervision of the elementary
and .secondary levels, guidance,
psychological servkes and sup­erintendent
of schools.
The University began its sum­mer
session in 1949 and added
graduate _programs a year later.
A record enrollmen·t of over 600
was established last year, and
a higher registration is expect­ed
this summer.
Information on courses de­scr.
iptions, degree requirements
and admission procedures is
available by contacting Father
McPeake in Canisius hall, Fair­field
University.
ta'tions in. the East. He also 'HURLEY
mentioned that the future sue- (Continued from Page One)
cess of the University's depart-ment
depended greatly on the Mr. Hurley holds the highest
academic achievemen't of its permanent office in the Con­graduates.
necticut Intercollegiate Stud-
Page Five
ent Legislature.
When questioned about his
new position, Mr. Hurley de­clared,
"I am appreciative of
the splendid support I received
from so many delegates, and
from my own Fairfield Univer­sity
delegation. r wish to com­mend
Mr. Simpson for running
a clean if quiet campaign. I
hope that the CISL parliamen­tarian
may continue to use his
genuine parliamentary skill.
"Certainly no man wins an
::>ffice like this without the help
of good friends and I would
thank Miss Sue Fippinger of
St. Joseph's College and all
those who helped me."
"I shall endeavor to make
1962's convention and "Mock
Legislature" the best in the his­tory
of the organization."
BAY STATE AREA
CLUB MAY SPLIT
Sean Dunphy and Jerome
Burke have announced that at
the next meeting of the Bay
State Area Club they will in­troduce
a motion suggesting
that the area represented by
the present Club be divided
into at least two sections.
Mr. Dunphy said that this
action was prompted by the in­creasing
difficulties involved in
trying to plan activities for the
students who now are from all
parts of Massachusetts. He said
this move would not have been
practical before because there
were not enough students at­tending
the University from
Massachusetts to support two
clubs. Due to the growth of the
University, he feels that this
could easily be done now.
Due to the importance of this
motion, Mr. Dunphy urges
that all members of the club
attend the April 25 meeting
and express their views.
Mr. Dunphy is Secretary and
Mr. Burke is Vice President of
the present Bay State Area
Club which was e.stablished in
1956.
Peru repo·rts a good harvest.
" ... ACT LIKE MEN:' They Said.
Pa.ge Six
NEWS
And
VIEWS
By ROD DOWLING
After dev.oting my first three columns to basket­ball
I w:ill now turn ·to the upcoming ba•seball season.
This w.ill be •a year of renov:a1ti!on in ·the Amerrican!
League with its addition of .two new !teams rounding
out the league to ten clubs. The addition of these two
teams, Los Angeles and Washington, have caused many
change1s in the basic plans of the American League.
Each team will play each other eighteen times which
means that .imstead of 154 games there will be 162
games. The addition of these eight games to the usual
schedule will not benefit the players. New Baseball
records will only be set over 154 games and will not
count .if ·set in game 155 -or theTeafter.
The National League will finish out the 1961 cam­paign
with the usual eight teams, but w,ill more than
likely open up the 1962 race w}th two new entr.ies,
New York and Houston. The sudden change in the
American and N ati'Onal Leagues over this season and
next was and will be definite moves by the owners to
kill any chance of Branch Rickey to establish a third
league, the Continental League. As far as I'm concern­ed
this. defin}tely proves tha1t baseball has steadily
strayed away from 1the term "sport" and has taken on
the word "bus iness." Walter O'Malley moved a suc­cessful
money-making team from Brooklyn to baseball­rich
California. Calvin Griffith, after a successful
money-making yea:r in Washing·ton, moved 1to ba·seball­hungry
. Minneapolis-St. Paul for more money. These
men cannot be termed spmtsmen in any sense of the
word. Their love of the game of baseball exists in
dollar signs and 1n01thing more.
I will attempt as many noble sportswri·ters have be­fol'e
me •to predi·ct the final standings in both leagues
subject to change ,if any new .teams •are added before
October:
American League
1) Chicago Whj,te Sox
2) New York Yankees
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
Baltimor·e Orioles
Cleveland Indians
Minnesota Twins
Boston Red Sox
Detro1t Tigers
Kansas Cbty Athletics
Los Angeles Angels
W·ashington Senators
N ation~l League
1) San Francisco Giants
2) Pit1tsburgh Pirates
3) Milwaukee Bmves
4) ~os Angeles Dodgers
5) St. Louis Cardina-ls
6)
7)
8)
Cincinnati Reds
Philadelphia Athletics
Chicago Cubs
Turning to ·the lighter ·side of baseball, we will take
a look 1at Coach Frank F·eroleto's 1961 Fairfield Base­ball
•squad. Feroleto s ta11ted a lineup against Seton
Hall University which consisted ·of four le1Jte·rmen and
five sophomores. The four lettermen were the back­bone
of 1ast year's hard luck •team which posted a 4-8-1
reoord ,1Jhat ,included six one run losses. With slick
fielding third baseman Dick Badolato, •steady Bill Schu­man
art; second base, hard hilting lef.t fielder John Bruzas
and l'eHable Dick Lorenzo 1in right field, the Stags have
the nucleus of a good team. Sophomore Ed Sklibiak
will be ·counted on to lead a thin corps .of moundsmen.
which include sophomores W:a:yne Baldino and Paul
Schauble, and help from BadoLato and Brums. Other
sophomore s ta·rter.s aTe Don Cook, at catcher; Nick Ma­carchuk,
at fir:;st base; Mike DiGennaro, at shoDtstop,
and Dick Greene in center. Senior Bob RirtJter, a reliable
hitter and fielder ·along with junior sticker Lou Zowine
will be called on for needed bench strength d1..u~ing the
season.
This is one of ·Fairfield's best baseball squads, so
g.ive :them so deserved support
THE STAG April 21, 1961
Stags Drop First Three Tilts
So. Conn., llunter ~
·Seton Hall Win
By ROD DOWLING
Coach Frank Feroleto's base­ball
team, relying heavily on
sophomores has yet to gel after
its <first three games. The main
fault with the team has been its
hitting which was supposed to
be its main forte. The team is
supporting a .172 batting aver­age
and if it hadn't been for
the pitching performances of
junior Dick Badolato and sopho­mores,
Ed Skibiak and Paul
Schauble there would be very
little to talk about as far as the
season stands so far.
As s-oon as the sophomores
get a few more games under
their belts and last year's heavy
hitters return to form, the team
will be unbeatable. Ed Skibiak
has the control and know how
to become one o.f the Stags all­time
great pitchers. Hard hit­ting
soph shortstop Mickey Di­Gennaro
has both hit and field­ed
like a three year veteran so
far. Soph Don Cook, first string
catcher, has proved to be a
reliable backstop. Instead of
using the old adage "Wait 'til
next year" it would be more
appropriate to say "Wait a few
.m·ore games."
Southern Conn. State
Downs Stags
Rallying 1behind the heavy
hitting of center fielder Ray
Ciar leglio (two home runs)
Southern Conn. State easily
defeated Fairfield for our third
strai:ght los·s.
Junior right fielder Pete
Morcey, So. Conn. pitcher, was
touched for nine hits by the
luckless Stag's but not one of
F airfield's - hits proved v ulner­able
as they stranded 11 men
on base. Bob Ritter, Stag senior
infielder, started his first game
of the year and went three for
three. J ohn Bruzas had the only
extra base hit for Fair field, a
double, while Dick Lorenzo had
a pair o.f singles.
Dick Badolato went the dis­tance
for the Stags and held the
Owls to six hits ·but didn't re­ceive
support of the team.
FAIRFIELD SO. CONN. STATE
ab r h rbi ab r h rbi
Schman,2b 5 0 1 0 E\rers.2b 4 0 0 0
Lorenzo,3b 5 0 2 1 Perrone,c 4 1 1 0
Bruzas,lf 5 0 1 0 Crone,ss 3 1 1 0
D'Gnnro,ss 4 0 1 0 O'C'nor,1b 4 1 1 1
Ritter ,1b 3 0 3 0 C'rlegio,cf 3 2 2 3
Zowine,rf 2 0 0 0 Hnchte,3b 3 0 1 0
Greene,cf 1 0 0 0 a-Guzzi 0 0 0 0
b-Skibiak 1 0 0 0 Virg'lio ,3b 0 0 0 0
Giann'tte,rf 0 0 0 0 Landino,rf 4 0 0 0
D'Ag'tin,cf 3 0 0 0 O'Dea,lf 4 0 0 0
Cook,c 4 1 1 0 Morcey,p 2 0 0 0
Ba dolato,p 3 0 0 01
--I
-----,----,-,--.:::3.:6:_ _:1:c__:9:_:_11,____~~3::.1:~5 6 4
Fairfield 001 000 000-1
So. Conn. State 000 200 12x-5
E-Crone-Hanchette (3) - Lorenzo
(2). PO-A- Fairfield 24-13, So. Conn.
27-19. DP-Schumann-Ritter; Morcey­Evers-
O'Connor .
LOB-Fairfield 11 , So. Conn. 6; 2B
--Bru zas. HR - Ciarlegio (2). SB -
Crone, O'Connor, Ciarlegio, S . Bada­l
a to, Ritter.
Morcey (W 3-0)
Badolato (L 0-1)
IP H R ER BB SO
9 9 1 0 0 2
8 6 5 5 4 1
Hunter One Hits Stags For Win
Behind the combined one hit
pitching of Stan Epstein and
Art Brennan, Hunter edged
Fairfield's nine 4-1. Only a
seventh inning sin.gle by Dick
.L·orenzo prevented Hunter's
pitchers from throwing a no­hitter.
Lorenzo's hit led to the only
Fairfield run, as he advanced
to second when Nick Macarchuk
drew a base ·On balls, and both
runners moved up on a sacrifice
by Don Cook. Pinch hitter Ed
Skibiak grounded out with
Lorenzo scoring on the play.
Dick Lorenzo, Senior third baseman, displaying the swing thai
enabled him to bat .320 last year and .300 his Sophomore year.
FAIRFIELD HUNTER
ab r h rbil ab r h rbi Ten Retnrning
Lettermen II ead
Spring Track
Badolato,p 3 0 0 OID'Gnro,2b 3 0 0 0
Greene,cf 2 0 0 OjWalitsky,lf 4 1 0 0
a-Ritter 1 0 0 0 Gimblo ss 4 0 1 0
Gianetti,rf 0 0 0 0 M'D'ell:1b 4 1 1 0
Schman,2b 2 0 0 0 Troiano,rf 4 1 2 2
Bruzas,lf 4 0 0 0 Klymic,3b 1 1 1 0
D'Gnnro,ss 3 0 0 0 Brennan,p 2 0 0 0
Lorenzo.3b 4 1 1 0 Welsch,c 3 0 0 0
Mcarchk,1b 3 o o o Epstein,p 2 o o o By GARY MULLER
Cook,c 2 . 0 0 0 Melnick .. cf 1 0 1 0
~~~~~~~~P ~ g g ~ At the initial meeting of the
Zowine,rf o o o o 1961 track season thirty-five
26 1 1 1 28 4 6 2 aspirants, runners and weight
a-grounded out for Greene in 8th
b-grounded out for Schauble in 7th men, reported to Coach Ed
Fairfield ooo ooo l00- 1 Tamashunas.
Hunter 000· 300 10x-4
E-.J. DiGinnero, Macarchuk. PO-A
- Hunter 27-16, Ffld. 24-18. DP- Di­Gennaro
and McDonnell. Left-Hunt­er
4, Fairfield 6. 2B- Troiano. SB -
Troiano , Klagmire 2, Brennan, Schu­mann
2, Greene, DeGennaro. S -
Cook, Brennon.
Epstein (W)
Brennon
Schauble (L)
Badolato
WP- Epstein.
IP H R ER BB SO
611173
3 0 0 0 0 2
6 5 3 3 2 4
2 11111
Erro-rs Paves Way For
Seton. Han Lo•ss
Playing their first game of
the year, Fairfield committed
five errors and was easily de­feated
·by Seton Hall. Sopho­more
hurler, Ed Skibiak pitch­ed
· a strong game striking out
seven and g i v i n g up 11
"scratch" hits.
Fair-fi,eld's three runs in the
third inning, resulted from an
error, a hit 'batsman, a double
by veter-an outfielder Johnny
Bruzas and a two-run triple by
shortstop Mike DiGennaro.
FAIRFIELD SETON HALL
ab r h rbil ab r b rbi
Badolato.3b 4 1 0 o ·Palsley,ss 5 2 3 0
a-Ritter 1 0 0 0 Marota,2b 4 2 1 2
Schman,2b 3 0 2 0 Burns,cf 5 0 1 0
Lorenzo,rf 3 0 0 0 I~polito ,1 b 4 1 3 0
Bruzas,lf 3 1 1 1 Fiore,3b 2 2 0 0
Macrchk,1b 3 1 0 0 Furch,rf 4 1 1 1
DiG'naro,ss 4 0 1 2 Balzarti,lf 4 0 1 2
Skibiak,p 4 0 0 0 Rhetigan,c 4 0 1 0
Cook,c 1 0 0 0 Klein,p 4 0 0 0
D 'Agostin,c 2 0 0 0
Greene,cf 3 0 2 0
b-Zowine ~~
32363 368115
a-B atted for Badalato in 9th
b-Batted for Greene in 9th
Fairfield U . . 003 000 000-3
Seton H all 000 120 32x-8
E-Schumann, Lorenzo, Macarchuk,
D'Agostin 2, Ippolito, Fiore. LOB­Fairfield
9; Seton Hall 10.
2B- Schumann 2, Bruzas, Ippolito
2. 3B- DeGennaro, Paisley, Marotta,
Burns. SB- Marotta. &-Marotta.
IP H RERBBSO
Skibiak (L) 8 11 8 0 4 7
Klein (W) 9 6 3 0 6 4
REP- Schumann. WP-Skibiak. PB
-Cook, D'Agostin.
This season's varsit:y will
have ten returning lettermen
led by captain Peter Houser
and featuring three strong long­distance
juniors in John Barry,
Lou Ockey and Bob McCarthy.
Coach Tamashunas will be ex­pecting
some strong support
from sophomores Mickey Kin­ny,
Larry Longua and pole
vaulter Jack Fontanello. Little
but spirited Jim Daly should
gain many points for the Frosh
team.
The 1961 squad has seven
scheduled meets, including five
dual meets, featured by the
rival meet at the University of
Bridgeport on May 9. Other
races on the schedulde of major
importance are the Queens­lana
Relays on April 22, and the
annual Collegiate Track Con­ference
on May 13, which will
terminate the campaign.
The schedule is as follows:
April 22 - Queens - Iona
Relays.
April 26 - Southern Connec­ticut
State (V. & F .) 3:30.
May 3 - Hunter (V. & F .)
May 9 at Br idgeport
(V. & F.)
May 13 - C.T.C.
Coach Tamashunas is pres­ently
in his tenth year as head
track and cross country coach
here at the University. Last sea­son
was his best campaign in
track as his team gained an
undefeated season in its five
dual meets and gained the di­stinction
of being the first var­sity
sport's squad to be unde­feated
in the history of the
University.
April 21, 1961
SPORTS PERSON~I\LI'TY
Left :to right: Dick Lorenzo, John Bruz;as, Bob Ri:t:ter
By DICK BADOLATO
THE STAG
Intramurals Go
Outdoors Again
By TED ARNOLD
Now that the spring season
has eome upon us Fr. Caffrey's
huge staff has again moved their
headquarters to Fairfields great
outdoors.
Ten teams were selected in
the senior circuit for this years
softball league, with twelve men
on each team.
Because of the recent down­pours
many of the games had
to be postponed. To date only
four teams have been able to
play. On opening day Jim Duf­fy
's team defeated the defend­ing
champions of Bill Wallin.
Duffy led by the fine hitting
and fielding of Bucky Schippa
and Mike Guglielmo and the
excellent pitching of Jim Moon­ey
should prove to be a team to
watch. Wallin's squad, although
lacking some of its punch from
last year will give quite a few
teams trouble. In the onlv other
This Week's Sport Personality featu res three Senior mem- game played Duke Michael's '
bers of the Stag baseball team: John Bruzas, Bob Ritter, and team came from behind in the
Dick Lorenzo. Due to the fact that there are three personalities last two innings to defeat Tony
this issue, this column will be more of a candid shot of the ·McCall's nine despite the pitch­player
s rather than dealing with the personality of them. ing effort of Devin Doolan. The
winning pitcher was Dan Kiley.
JOHN BRUZAS
J ohn who is Captain of the 1961 Stag nine is a native of
Bridgeport and was prominent in area high school ball while
at F airfield Prep. At Prep, John was Captain of his baseball
team in his Senior year and stands out as one of the Preps' all
t ime hitters with a life time average over .400.
:He has played baseball for Fairfield University for the
past two seasons and hit .392 in his Sophomore year and .339
last year.
J ohn lives in Bridgeport with his wife Marion. He is an In­dustrial
Management Major and plans to go into management
u pon graduation.
BOB RITTER
Bob hails from Grosspointe, Michigan and is playing his
s econd season for Frank Feroleto's Fair field nine. Bob was a
s tand out star in high school playing three sports, football,
basketball and baseball and was named to his all conference
t eam in both football and baseball. Last year Bob batted around
. 300 and is being counted on heavily again this year.
Bob who resides in Chappaqua, New York, is a History major
and upon graduation will join the Marine Corps.
DICK LORENZO
Dick comes from Meriden, Connecticut where he attended
Southington High and was not only a stand out baseball player
but a lso all state guard in basketball.
Dick played freshman basketball for the Stags and was
a big factor in their fine season. In baseball he hit .300 his
sophomore year and .320 last year. He throws right handed and
bats lefty and is considered a fine hitter. Dick is a marketing
major and after graduation he will join the army.
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Page Seven
Junior Bob Jenkins poses proudly wi:th :the K of C Mos:t Valu­able
Player :trophy he received a:t :the Sports Dinner run by :the
Oardinal Key. A:t :the dinner, it was announced :tha:t Bob had
been chosen Captain of :the 1961-62 basketball squad.
Referee John Creed, '61, em­phasizing
his power in All­Star
:til:t; "Technical foul.
Muller."
N o:tice :to the Athletic De­partment:
The Sports Editor would like
:to know why :the Varsity
Baseball Team is not allow­ed
to use :the Gym for prac­tice
when, under the cover of
darkness, the Raybestos base­ball
club practices there.
won
FROSH-SOPH SOFTBALL
By JOHN SCOTT
With the Rev. Augustine
Caffrey, S.J., throwing out the
first ball, Tuesday, April 11
marked the opening of another
intramural season. Once again ,
the teams moved outdoors as
the softball season began.
The junior league is compos­ed
of five thirteen-man teams
each led by a sophomore: Leon­ard,
DiSpalatro, Saccomanno,
Deutsch, and Hintelmann. Leon­ard
is supported by Bob Hut­ter;
DiSpalatro has Clark re­ported
to be the league's best
pitcher; Hintelman has Ron
Reischer; Saccomanno has
roommate Dom Torrillo and
basketball teammate Andy Don­nelly;
and Deutsch is backed
by Frank Mastrapasqua and
several men from Gonzaga 3.
On opening day, Leonard's
trounced Saccomanno's
aided by fine hitting and field­
·ng lapses. The score was a
stunning 20-5 win. The follow­in~
day, Joe DiSpalatro's squad
downed Deutsch's boys, 8-3,
with the aid of Clark's fine
pitching. The next day's game
between one-beaten Saccoman­no
and Hintelman was rained
out, and will be played at a
Iater date.
THAN X
We sincerely hope that the
student body will give its entire
support to this program because
Rev. Augustine Caffrey, S.J.,
spent his whole vacation putting
sawdust in the bases, growing
grass and finding softballs.
Page Eight
Jesuit's Thesis Studies Decision-Making
REV. GEORGE CROFT. S.J., prepares tachistoscope for fresh·
man volunteer. one of 165 Fairfield students who participated
in the recent series of rysychological tests in Canisius Hall.
By ST A.NLEY KLUKOWSKI
For the past 'three months 165
students have participated in
psychology tests by Rev. George
Croft S.J., an English (British)
Jesuit. The purpose of these
tests, Fr. Croft explained, is
two-fold. First, "to compare the
external characteristics (amount
of inquiry, conformity with the
group, speed, etc.) of decision­making
of an individual in the
following two tests. In the first
test a tachistoscope was used.
It is an apparatus for exposing
figures . . . for one-fifth of a
second or less. The student was
required to decide whether a
flashed image more closely re­sembled
one of two nearby,
similarly appearing figures.
The other test was a person­ality
test. Printed cards with
subjective implications we r e
used. Approximately 550 cards
were gone over by the student
and the oards were placed in
categories which more closely
resembled his personality. Sec­ondly,
"the contents of the per­sonality
tests were used to in­vestigate
person - to - person
variations in the method of
deciding, namely over-inquiry,
under-inquiry, and a person's
behavior in 'the face of uncer­tainty."
So far. "the results give some
evidence that emotional factors,
khich the method employed, can
to some extent, influence the
readiness with which persons
are able to commit themselves.
Some hurried away from uncer­tainty
to guessed decisions; oth­ers
indulged in over-inquiry as
though shirking away from
possibility of certainty."
From the original 165 stu­dents,
108 of their tests were
chosen as matter 'for the ex­periment.
Since a voluminous
amount of data was tabulated,
another two or three months
will be needed to calculate sta­tistical
results. Fr. Croft hopes
that the results will eventually
lead to publication and "all who
participated can hope to make
a contribution to scientific psy­chology."
Father Croft wishes to ex­press
"a special word of grati­tude"
to Rev. Thomas McGrath
S.J. and his staff. Fr. McGrath
is the h e ad of the Fairfield
University psychology depart­ment.
Also Fr. Croft is very
grateful "for the unqualified and
genuine help he received and
particularly for the lively in­terest
of the boys who 'took the
test."
A Londoner 1by birth, Father
Croft entered the Society of
Jesus in 1942 and was ordained
at Heythrope College in 1956.
During this 'time he studied psy­chology
at Oxford for four years.
Fr. Croft !'ecalls that the Rev.
Hugo Durst S.J., an instructor
of philosophy at Fairfield, was
also studying at Oxford at the
time. Fr. Durst also tried to
teach the Englishmen basketball
in his spare time. In 1958 Fr.
Croft came to the States to do
graduate work in psychology at
Fordham. At the present Fr.
Croft is working toward his
doctorate and the tests he con­ducted
at Fairfield are the sub­ject
matter for his thesis.
Speech Tournament
Offers Cash Prizes
'The Robert Bellarmine De­bating
Society will sponsor a
public speaking contest on
April 26 at 1:10 p.m. in Cani­sius.
The contest will consists of
two parts. Each contestant will
take a stand on the topic "Fed­eral
Aid to Catholic Education,"
and give both a five minute
prepared original speech on his
topic and a three minute ex­temporaneaus
speech on a top­ic
to be provided.
The prizes will be $15.00 for
first place, $10.00 for second, and
$5.00 for third. Winners will be
selected on a point basis with
both parts counting equally.
Content and presentation will
be the criteria for judgment.
Students wishing to compete
should sign up in the Dean of
Men's office in Xavier Hall or
the Dean of Admissions office
in Canisius Hall. Further infor­mJation
can be obtained from
Dave Royston, '61, or Father
Nickerson, S.J.
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THE STAG
Seminar Honors
Senior Scholars
The first in a series of in­formal
seminars, designed . to
focus the attention of the col­lege
community on the field of
college teaching as a career,
will be held Monday, May 1 at
8 p .m. in Canisius faculty
lounge, according to the Rev.
T. Everett McPeake, S.J., chair­man
of the Faculty Committee
en Graduate Fellowships. J
Open to all members of the
Class of 1961 and a limited
number of interested juniors,
this first meeting will honor
seniors who have received fel­lowship
and assistantship
awards for graduate study. In
addition, Mr. Paul Nagy and
Mr. Richard Preto-Rodas, hon­ored
with assistantships from
Boston College last year and
presently members of the Fair­field
University faculty, will
speak.
Fr. McPeake stated that the
faculty members who make up
the University's interviewing
board for the Woodrow Wilson
Fellowship Foundation would
also be present: Dr. Matthew
McCarthy, Dr. John Barone,
Dr. Gerald McDonald, Rev.
William Hohman, S.J., Rev.
Thomas McGrath, S.J., and Fr.
McPeake. Representative pro­fessors
from all departments
have also been invited.
Fr. McPeake hopes to ar­range
student-faculty meetings
i.n the future, possibly arranged
departmentally so that a stud­ent
considering college teach-­ing
could meet and discuss his
chosen field with faculty mem­bers
in . that field. He pointed
out the discussions would have
a double value: the student
would gain valuable practical
experience by this informal con­tact
with faculty members and
would also be intellectually
challenged by authorities in his
chosen field.
In making the announce­ment,
Fr. McPeake pointed out
that 'while more and more Cath­olics
are teaching in the coun­try's
secondary schools, a rela­tively
small number of Catho­lics,
for one reason or another,
/3re choosing a career as a col­Lege
or university teacher. This
is especially true in secular col­leges,
he said.
Refreshments will follow the
Canisius meeting.
Arkansas penitentiary pro­duces
twice as much cotton and
rice per acre as the average
Arkansas farm.
On and Off
the Campus
DRINK PEPSI
April 21. 1961
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F1ILM FESTIVAL
(Cont. from Page 4)
A funny thing about a festi­val
such as I have described is
that it would also be entertain­ing.
One held at Georgetown
University last summer includ­
·ed such films at "East of Eden"
and "Seven Brides for Seven
Brothers."
A Film Festival, to start next
year, is now being considered
by Father McCormick, Dean of
Men. If instigated, it will take
the place of, or at least suppli­ment,
the usual Saturday eve­ning
fare.
A critical judgement of mo­tion
pictures is a necessity at
any school which teaches a phil-osophy
it expects its students
to live by, such as Fairfield. The
incongruity which exists be­tween
philosophy as we ' are
taught it in the classroom and
which we are shown in Gonza­ga
is a sad fact. In a postscript
to Father Lynch's article, Steve
Allen says, "Perhaps English or
philosophy instructors could in
some way relate their classroom
lectures and assignments to the
ideas (greed, punishment, crime,
war, love, humor, etc.) covered
by the exhibited films ." I have
only once seen a motion picture
used as an illustration of some­thing
in philosophy class.
Unfortunately, the picture
was misinterpreted.
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THE STAG
Dorms Welcome
Glee Club Buses
A cheering horde of stud­ents
poured out of the Univer­sity
dorms last Sunday night
to greet the Fairfield University
Glee Club returning with its
second consecutive Catholic In­tercollegiate
Glee Club Festival
crown.
The eighty-five man
snatched victory from
other collegiate clubs repre-
3enting six Eastern states in a
gruelling weekend of competi­tion
at the Jersey State Col­lege
auditorium in Jersey
City. Among the colleges rep­resented
were Scranton, St.
John's University, Canisius
College, St. Bonaventure Uni­versity,
~eton Hall University,
St. Peters College, Providence
College, and Mt. St. Mary's
College. LeMoyne College of
Syracuse participated in the
festival, but did not compete,
smce only all-male glee clubs
were eligible.
Director Simon Harak, and
Stephen Dempsey, '61, accepted
the trophy at the festival ban­quet.
The two-day festival which
opened Saturday evening with
a public concert involving all
clubs, featured 700 glee club
mebers singing Petro Yon's
"Mass of the Shepheds" on
Sunday morning at St. Peter's
College. Fairfield U.'s Mr. Ha­rak
directed the Mass.
At the Sunday competition
each g)ee club sang two num~
bers: "Adoramus Te, Christe"
and a song of the club's choice.
FaJrfield sang "Emitte Spiritum
Tuum." "Let There Be Music"
was chosen •as the c0llege's
warm-up number.
Judging the festival were
singing star, Jessica Dragon­ette;
Fausto Cleva, conductor of
the Metropolitan Opera Sym­phony
orchestra; Francis D
Perkins, music critic of th~
N.Y. Herald-Tribune; Harry R.
W1lson, chairman of the Colum­b
:a University department of
Music and Walter Ehret, com­poser
and arranger.
Ed Herlihy of NBC was mas­ter
of ceremonies.
Sodalists Cross State
In Apostolate Projects
University Sodalists traveled
to two different parts of the
state last week as part of their
off-campus apostolate.
· Sodality officers met with a
representative number of offi­cers
from the Sodality at St.
Mary's Nursing School in Wa­terbury,
Conn., to discuss com­mon
problems in conducting the
lay apostolate groups. Phases
discussed included, the lay
apostolate, the committee sys­tem
of government and the
candidate counciling system.
Another group of Sodalists
and candidates met with a rep­resentative
group of girls from
the Longlane School for Girls
in Middletown, Conn. Longlane
is a state-sponsored correction
school with an impressive re­cord
in rehabilitation. An ex­change
of ideas concerning the
two schools was followed by an
informal discussion about the
problems connected with en­gagement
and marriage.
A Sodality spokesman re­marked
he felt that both groups
had profited from the meeting.
Page Nine
"RATS"
"Campus Profiles # 1
Theology Department"
Festival Shows Profits;
Knights Plan Dance
This year's Dogwood Festival,
"as things stand right now," has
acquired more net receipts than
any other social ·week held on
the Fairfield campus, Kenneth
K Dubuc, Financial Chairman of
the affair announced today.
Despite the cost of such top
weekend talent as blues singer
Ray Charles, most financial ob­ligations
of the festival have al­ready
been met and many costs
have been able to be reduced
below original estimates, he said.
* * *
The Fairfield University chap­ter
of 'the Knights of Columbus
will hold a post prom party on
Friday, May 12. Slated for Mary
Journey's Inn, the party will
feature dancing to Bob Master's
four piece combo. This affair is
not a part of the package deal.
Tickets costing $3.00 per couple
are on sale at the Dogwood Fes­tival
ticket booth in Xavier Hall
cafeteria daily from 8: 30-3:00,
but they will also be sold at
i.he door. Light refreshments
will be provided.
One of the high points of this
year's Festival will be the re­turn
of Eli's Chosen Six for the
Sunday afternoon Jazz concert.
Formerly at Yale University,
the Six is now working in New
York. Festival chairman Paul
Rudd said that they did such a
fabulous job at last year's Jun­ior
weekend that he asked for
a repeat performance. The con­cert,
under the chairmanship of
Stan Rashid, will be held on
the back lawn of the Father
Coleman Hall of the Knnght's
of Columbus.
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Page Ten THE STAG April 21. 1961
DRAMA SOCIETY PRESENTS HAMLET APRIL 27-29 On April 27, 28 and 29, the
University Drama Society will
present their first Shakes­pearean
production, HAM­LET
under the direction of
Rev. John Louis Bonn, S.J.
Every actor, it is said, would
sacrifice most anything to
play Hamlet. Not every actor
can - nor should. Rehearsals
reveal that junior Sam Groom
can and should. Supporting
Sam will be a solid group of
able young men dividing its
talents between acting and
production. The work of this
group and the impressions of
STAG writers are summariz­ed
below. - ED.
(Staff writers: D. Preziosi.
R i c h a r d Picardi. William
Hoehler, Lawrence Lavigne
and Louis Mazzaferro.)
What It's Like
To Work With
Father Bonn
Equity, the well known actor's
organization, recommends that
a show be in rehearsal no long­er
than 28 days. Reason: after
this length of time it becomes
familiar and stale. The Drama
Society's production, Hamlet,
h as thus far been in rehearsal
six weeks. You will not, how­ever,
find that this has any ef­fect
on the show, save its im­provement.
Very little investi­gation
was required to discover
the source of this interest
Rev. J. L. Bonn, S.J.
It took quite some time
secure Father Bonn as a direc­tor
for this production, but it
was well worth the wait. By
attending just one rehearsal,
one can see how his personality
and interpretation can enhance
any prolonged effort. It was
well worth the wait to get a
man who can cut Hamlet from
its original 4400 lines to 2200
without sacrificing the thought
contact of the play; worth wait­ing
for a man who obtains cos­tumes
from -Eaves, one of the
biggest Broadway suppliers.
It is a pleasure to watch a
perfectionist at work; in go-ing
over the first act, the players
had not gotten two lines into
the script ·before "Cut!" rang
out. After a small dissertation
on imperfections, Father Bonn
allowed them to start the scene
again. This time they made it to
the third word in the third line
before he let loose again. Once
more 1Jhey resumed their places
and -once more they were called
back. This went on five times
before they graduated to the
fourth line. What keeps an
actor going when faced with
something like this? One factor
is a mutual greed for perfec­tion;
another might be the an-ticipation
to see :ij'ather Bonn
demonstrate an interpretation.
Groom Plays Hamlet
The role of Hamlet will be
played by Samuel Groom, '62.
Previously Sam has played Leo
in "Little Foxes," Dr. Stockman
in "Enemy of the People," Jeff
in "Dear Adversary," and Ben
in "Sound of Triumph."
John Warburton portrays
Horatio, He played in various
Shakespearean plays while at
Brooklyn Prep, and has contri­buted
to t he Fairfield produc­tions
of "Enemy of the P eople,"
"Billy Budd," and s e v e r a 1
others.
The ghost of Hamlet is played
by Alan Catalano who has play­ed
several roles for his high
school Latin club a n d Father
Solomon in las't year's proruc­tion
of "Served with an Onion."
The part of Claudius, the king
of Denmark, is taken by Dale
McNulty who is also in charge
of the lighting for t he produc­tion
. In the past he has played
Peter Stvvesan't in "Knicker­bocker
H~liday" and Alonso in
the "Tempest" as well as doing
stage managing and directing.
Polonius is played by Henry
O'Hagen. As president of the
drama society he has played
Dansker in "Billy Budd," and
both played in and designed the
set for "Enemy of the People."
The role of Laertes is under­taken
by Richard Picardi who
has been set designer for "Ex­perimental
'60," master property
man for "Enemy of the People"
and "Detective Story," and scene
painter for "Teahouse of the
August Moon."
Geoffrey Stokes who played
Captain Veer in "Billy Budd"
SAM GROOM will take 'the part of Rosen-
- --- -----------<->• crantz. Mr. Stokes has also done
came to rest on some unsuspect­ing
attendant.
His directions to the actors
are also delivered in a unique
-and direct manner. When he
wished one actor to refrain from
"covering" another, he gently
roared for the beast to remove
his gargantuan hulk from in
front o.f the poor boy. This type
o.f tilling usually entertains the
backstage workers until the cur­tain
is not pulled .fast enough or
the lights are not right or the
props are not in place. Another
well worded suggestion from
Father and the curtain breaks
the four minute mile, the lights
are corrected and the props are
placed by some red-faced stage­hand.
Precision in all phases
s·oon becomes the goal of each
member of the crew. Here is a
director who will go to the
research on the music for the
production.
Ophelia is being played by
Gabriele Gunther who last ap­peared
in the CBS television
production of "Tobias and the
Angel." She is currently tour­ing
in 'the children's show
"Rumpelstiltskin" fo r E q u i t y
Library Children's Theater.
Mrs. Vera Meyers will appear
as Gertrude. Mrs. Meyers, the
wife of executive director and
actor Stanley Meyers, has play­ed
summer stock at Nantucket
and Fairhaven, Mass.
trouble of arranging rehearsal
schedules so that a minority of
the cast are kept waiting
through scenes in which they
do not participate. And yet he
will not hesitate to use any
handy method to get what he
wants out orf his cast. A brilliant
combination and one that makes
working under Father Bonn a
memorable experience.
HAMLET . . SAM, GROOM
HORATIO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JOHN WARBURT'ON
CLAUDIUS . . . . .. . .. . . . . DALE McNULTY
GERTRUDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VERA MEYERS
LAERTES RICHARD PICARDI
POLONIUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HEN'RY O'HAGAN
OPHELIA . . . . . . . . . . . . GABY GUNTHER
ROSENCRANTZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GEOFFRE,Y ST'O·KES
GUILD ENS TERN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GARRET TOWEL
VOLTIMAND . . . .. . . . .. .. . .. . . . . . .. . RO·BERT LARSEN
FORTINBRAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JOHN O'REILLY
MARCELLUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DONALD PRE-ZIOSI
BERNARDO . . . DOUGLAS FALSETTI
f"RANCISCO . . . . . . . TO·NY McCAL-L
GRAVEDIGGERS . .. MICHAEL FRATANTUNO & JOHN DONNELLY
E:NGLISH AMBASSADOR RICHARD LAWLESS
PRIEST CHARLES CAVALIERI
GHOST . . . . . . .. . ALAN CATALANO
LADY-IN-WAITING TO GERTRUDE .... . . IRENE ROSEEN
(play wiJhin a play)
PLAYER KING dancing: Garret Towell reading: William Ndini
PLA YE;R QUEEN dancing: EJizabeih. Farrell reading: Margo! Car lie
LUCIANUS dancing: Louis Mazzaferro reading: Paul Heimbuch
recorder m.usic: Peter Olander
From Orsic to Ophelia, Father
will not a sk an actor or actress
to do something he himself can­not
do. For instance, the time
he was not satisfied with the
toast of the Danish King - it
wasn't authentic. Climbing on
stage, he took the cup (an empty
tin can) from the King and pro­ceded
to demonstrate the art of
making a Danish toast. When
finished, he 'breathed a deep
siglh, as though he had just fin­ished
a turkey dinner, and with
a great ·flourish, tossed the ves- /
se l over his shou 1 d er where it ?:tii:Irrr:·•r:•r:r·I:•:::I:r::::::::r:::::rr::•I::I:::::::::r:;:::::;::r::rrr::::::::::j:::rr:I•:nrri::•rr:•:•:r•I:'II:::::r•r:::r:::i:::rr::::rrr:::r:•::::;::•rr~rr:I:r:I::::r:I:rri:: }
BILL NDINI rehearses Player King role. In background are
Gary Towell, Sam Groom and Geoff Stokes.
Emerich Directs Play Within Play
In Act III, scene 2 of "Ham­let,"
there ·occurs the famous
"play within the play." Shakes­peare
himself focused attention
on this episode by having it
take place only after a sustained
build inihated in Act II. An
exciting point of high emotional
impact, it has ·been called the
climax, or at any rate, that
which precipitates the climax of
the entire p1ay. And •as such it
has demanded the most careful
planning and execution.
The accomplishment of this
end has been largely placed in
the hands of Mr. Ro,bert G.
Emerich, Assistant Pr ofessor of
English and an experienced
director. As he would have it,
the highly stylized scene will
be in noticeable contrast to the
play itself in its action and in
the technical aspects of its ex­ternal
appear.aoce. The first part
of this is •being achieved with
the assistance of the chorea-
·graphic work of Miss Elizabeth
Farrell, while the latter part
has been left to Mrs. Minerva
·Farrell in the creation of orig­inal
costuming in bl-ack ., aiid
white.
Dr-amatic First
The choreogra-phy of this, the
"dum·b show," is in h~ghly dra­matic
pantomime form -as b efits
its nature, and involves the
work of Gary Towell as the
betrayed player King, Louis
!Mazzaferro .as the murderous
Lucianus, and Miss F arrell h er­self,
as the treacherous player
Queen. In what is believed to
·be ·a dramatic first, the reading
of the action will occur simul­taneously
with the pantomime
of the dumb-show players, not
after, as is the custom. Serving
in this capacity William Ndini,
P aul Heimbuch and Miss Mar­got
Garlie will read the parts
respective to the foregoing
players.
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WALTER BLAIR examines some of the lighting equipment
to be used in the production.
THE STAG
Staging Background:
The Platforms
The Dramatic Society's pro­duction
of Hamlet will employ
platform-staging, moving the
action over various levels. The
platforms, executed in the So­ciety's
production quarters in
Southwell Hall, will spread
thirty-one feet across the Gon­zaga
stage, stand two feet at
the highest points, and six feet
deep at the widest sections. Nine
columns will stand at the points
of the platform levels.
The complex of platforms
will divide the playing area as
follows: upstage left: the throne,
drawing the focus of attention
from all platforms and the re­stage
and apron dur ­ing
full throne room scenes.
Center; utstage ; the grav e. A
drop in platform level will con­ceal
and contain the grave.
Full platform space will be
employed for State Room scenes,
rampart scenes, and the grave­yard
action. Polonius' and Ger­trude's
chambers will be played
on the apron.
Scenery, Sound and Lighting
Two large tapestries will
grace the production. The arras
will stand center midstage, par­tially
withdrawn behind an
opening in the main curtain.
Designed an executed by Don­ald
Preziosi, it will hang during
the "closet scene" in Gertrude's
chamber. The second tapestry
will hang behind the t h r o n e
during Throne-room scenes di­agonal
to the audience. The de­sign,
a formal coat of arms, has
been executed by Richard Pi­cardi.
Under the guidance of Walter
Blair, the sound and music for
the production will e m p loy
wind, thunderstorms, recorder
music, gregorian chant, funeral
dirges, and "wild music." Dale
McNulty will light the show­a
"cold" show - with a pre­dominant
blue tinting.
The Costuming for Hamlet
. Eaves Costume Company, Inc.,
of New York, was selected for
the task of costuming HAMLET.
It is handling the major portion
of the play itself. The quality
of the costumes reflects the
skill and experience of this
famous house.
The Dumb Show will employ
stylized outfits - b 1 a c k and
white. Mrs. Minerva Farrell, of
the Elite Costume Shoppe
(Westport) is executing these
costumes.
Page Eleven
DALE McNULTY eyes the Stag camera watching his progress
on the Shrine pieces.
Rates Reduced For Students
April 27 has been designated! at the Fairfield Religious Supply
as student night with admission Shoppe. Reservations may be
prices set at $1.25. All seats are made by contacting the Public
reserved and are priced at $1.75 Relations Office in Xavier Hall.
each on April 28 and 29 .. On The necessary publicity cam­campus,
tickets may be pur- paign is being conducted both
chased in the Canisius Hall lob- on and off campus. Fifteen eye
by on weekdays from noon un- catching posters have been
til 1:00 p.m. and from 4:00 to strategically placed around the
4:30 p.m., on Saturdays from campus. Notices of the forth-
8:30 until 9:00 a.m. Special stu- coming production have also
dents headed by William San- adorned the classroom black-giovani
are vending tickets in
Gonzaga and Loyola Halls. In
Xavier Hall the box office is
located in the Public Relations
Office all day Monday through
Friday, also in the cafeteria
from noon until 1:00 p.m.
Tickets may be purchased in
Bridgeport at the Catholic Sup­ply
Company and in Fairfield
boards for the previous three
months. For the public, notices
have been and will be placed
in the Sunday editions of local
newspapers, and notification has
been given the Bridgeport radio
stations. As a final publicity
measure members of the press
have been issued invitations to
attend Hamlet on April 28.
DICK PICARDI carries out his · Throne Room. ~apes·try · in
Southwell Hall.
Page Twelve TH E STAG Apr il 21. 1961
FU Student At Rusli Spaceman Celebration
The students running toward
the parade in Moscow's Red
Square stopped the Intourist
buses, r ecognizing the riders as
Americans, waved, laughed hap­pily,
ofl'e r ed the Americans
gifts.
It was a day of na'tional cele­bration,
the day of the first man
in space. It was a surge of the
Russian heart, a pride in being
Russian.
A week before, in Kiev's St.
Dmitri's Orthodox church, other
students had shoved in'to the
Easter Saturday evening ser­vices,
shouting, swearing, want­ing
to create a riot.
The two events fit together,
no't only because they are both
experiences of Frank Crowley
a fr eshman at Fairfield Uni­versity.
They show that in a time of
religious significance, it was a
p iece of national achievement
which brought exurberance,
and overt friendliness 'to the
visiting Americans.
Lack o·f Boasting
More strikingly, there was a
lack, in the Russians, of a
boastfulness that the space suc­cess
might be a purely Russian,
vis- a -vis American achievement.
For the man on the stree't, the
fact was t h a t something of a
milestone had occured that day;
it was Russian, they were Rus­sian,
and the association mean't
everything to them.
The score which it had made
in the ideological struggle didn't
matter to them - at 'that mo­ment.
This was Frank Crowley's
impression, in an interview
Monday, from the two weeks he
spent touring Poland and Russia
from Mar. 28 to Apr. 16, ending
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FRANCIS CROWLEY, '64
in Moscow precisely at the 'time
of the space success.
Catholic Group
Crowley's tour was sponsored
by the Eastern Catholic Aposto­late,
whose p urpose is to foster
r elations between the Eas'tern
and Western sections of the
Church.
He had been prepared in the
Russian course taught by in­structor
Wolfe Czamansk y. His
mother and aunt, who accom­panied
him on the 'trip, both
sp eak Polish.
Some r eports of the Soviet
citizen reaction to the first man­in-
space had described the Mos­cow
street scene as "like nothing
since the emo'tional abandon of
V-J Day." .
Frank Crowley saw it differ-
The suggestion to offset the
poor attendance at the morning
rosary by setting aside one day
each week for a class rosary,
has received a favorable recep­tion
from the University's class
o~c ers, according to a Sodality
spokesman.
A schedule of the class ro­sar
ies is cur rently being com­pil.
ed and will be posted at a
later date.
JDD1
lDD1
ently. "The day that Gagarin's
feat was announced, it seemed
the people didn't realize the
uniqueness of it all," hes says,
"and so 'there was not sheer
wildness in the streets.
"But the people were happy,
and they were acting as we
would if we were to stop people
unknown in the street, merely
to share the wonderful even't
that had happened, the wonder­ful
day for Russia.
"We were in the Kremlin, in
the Tretyakow Gallery, which
houses 16th and 17th century
Russian art, when we were dis­turbed
by something unusual.
S tuden f~ Singing
"Ou'tside of the building, two
groups of students had met, and
wer e singing at the top of their
lungs, seemingly for the joy of
singing. From what we've h eard
of the cold country, that marked
an occasion."
On the day of 't h e official
celebration, two days later, the
tempo of excitement had mount­ed.
"The pavade which wound
into Red Square was as jubilant
as any Fourth of July produc­tion,"
Crowley remembers, "not
'the martial, rigidly strict lines
we see in newsreels.
"Bright flags , shouts, sporadic
cheer s, all this had the appear­ance
of spontaneity, or at least
of enjoyment instead of a fol­lowing
of orders."
Crowley should have said al­most
not as strict as we've seen
in newsreels.
For he was de'tained by the
Soviet police, and questioned,
for trying to cross the street on
which the parade was passing;
the Russians still t a k e their
parades a bi't more seriously
than we do.
Visits Polish Homes
Thc:ugh his ex perience was
mainlv in the meeting of Rus­sian
~tudents, who showed an
LOYOLA HALL TV room visitors will be the only students
to be poten t ially influenced by the above 10' x 6' s ign, p u r ­chased
by the Junior Class promoters of the forthcoming Dog­wood
Festival. The $55 venture turned out to be a flop when
it was learned (after it had been bought) that the sign could
not be erected on camlpus. It will remain on display in the
TV lounge for the benefit of those interested.
eagerness to demonstrate their
facility with the English lan ­guage,
Frank Crowley says that
his visi't to three Polish homes
on Easter Sunday was also in­formative,
for differ ent r easons.
"The Poles whom we visited
have exhausted their patience
with the Russians transplanted
to Poland. Though the people
cited no specific poin'ts of con­flict,"
Crowley said, "we did
note, for instance, that the new­ly
built housing development of
Nova Huta, a government pro­ject,
has no church.
"It is this living with the
troubles of Communism," Crow­ley
noted/ ' which struck me as
the temper of those Catholics."
Besieged Shrine
Perhaps this was best symbo­li
zed by a visi't Crowley paid to
a Polish shrine outside of Cra-cow.
It is a place about which
the Polish Catholic church bat­tled
Premier Wyladys1aw Go­mulka
some time ago, a battle
which they won when pilgr ims
were allowed to continue 'to
Hock there from all over Poland.
It's called Czechtachowa, a
shrine which has withstood at­tacks
f r o m Tartars, from the
Swedes, and the subtler attack
of the Russians now. A black
Madonna is the chief object of
veneration, scarred from actual
hostile blows, blackened from a
fire which damaged the shrine
in days memory cannot recall.
Though scarred, and charred,
it remains, alongside the Rus­sians,
alongside their successes.
l't was there before them. It
holds the possibility of being
there after them.
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